Display rack



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DISPLAY RACK Filed Sept. 8, 1951 2 Sheets-Sheet l INVENTOR. Z Zzzae d Bean 41 Wf/Zm,

ATTORNEY.

March 8 1932. w. 0. BROWN DISPLAY RACK Filed Sept. 8, 1931 2 Shgets$heet 2 INVENTOR. use dfieow/v l Zz 4 a A; L 2 l g m a 0 z, w z E. w w, a z

ATTORNEY.

Patented Mar; 85 1932 it v 7 UNI ES P ENT OFFKZE a i I wntrnn BROWNLOF nnrrno 'r, MIcnIGAN DISPLAY ACK 1 v I v i A pplicationfiled September 8, 193 1. Serial 110,561,689. 7 This invention relates display racks for vided with a fabric cover which maybe quick-' merchandise of various kinds but ismore par- 1y brought into position to cover the fruit p ticularly adapted for the display of bananas sitioned on the display rack and which may be 7 and is herein shown and described but it is quickly rolled up out of the wayto permit o to beundersto0d that articles ofvarious the fruit to beexposed to view." i 65' kinds maybedisplayed therein without de- These objects and the several novel feapart-ing from thescope of the invention. tures of the invention are hereinafter-more r I An object of the invention is in the provifully described and claimed and the preferred L s: sion of a display rack comprising one or form of construction by'whichtheseobjects more strips of fabricso held as to-provide a are attained is shown inathe accompanying loopor loops which WilLcloselycOnform,to drawings 'in whiche the shape of a hand of bananas. i 1 1 Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my improved; Another object of the invention is in the display rack. i r j provision of a display rack which-is so con- 7 Fig. v 2Tis a, vertical sectional view taken 15 structed as to permit aplurality'of-handsof on line 22 of Fig.1. g bananas to be displayed therein and which Fig. 3 is a verticaltransverse sectional view will permit any one of the hands to be retaken on line 3-3 ofFig. 2. f 7 moved from the rack without disturbing ,or Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing changing the position of any of the other the means utilized for covering the fruit on hands] display;

Another object of the invention is in the Fig. 5 is a detail perspective view of a provision of, a-"iabric support'for hands of modified form of fabric support. a bananas which will help maintain the ba- Fig. 6 i sfatop plan view of a displayrack j nanas in good condition and which will prcembodying the structure as shownin Fig. vent the, lower bananas in the hand from be- It is a well known fact in the fruit, and

m g damaged (luck) e W ight o e particularly the banana industry, that when uppermost bananas of the hand pressing th d f banana o in Conta t with thereon. f v other bananas or when a hand ofbananasis A still further object of the invention 1s l id on hard unyielding surface that th in the pIOViSlOIl Of a rack Of this bananas becomehspotted 311380 character preventthe bananas therefore not readily a1ab1e imone hand coming in contact with the bananas 7 proved structure thi diffi lt i overcome in another hand in the TO? thereabove. as bananas are upported on a looped I Altother 3 of the lnventlqn 15 m the strip of fabric material which will not bruise i provision of a dlsplay rack 1n which the fahthe same I I I ri support for the bananas is arranged in vRefernng nowto the drawings, 7 stepped relation so that the uppermost layer; l k omprises the ends walls 1 and 2,:

9 eacn n bananas m the Vanous I'QWS the front wall 3, the base 4 and the rear wall n is exposed to Y 's' i 5 which maybe provided with a removable, n t i of the mventlopds m the back 6. 'Thebase 4 haspositioned thereon provtslon of i p rack compnsmg the ele'otriclamps 7 which mav be turned on stantlany box hke Structure the upper face in cold :weath'er'to prevent the: bananas or ofthe same formed of fabric material so arv I I v I p fruit on'd splayilnthe rack from becomlng ,ranged as to support a plurallty of hands of chilled. A thermometer 8 y also bananas the box further provided with a s v V v p means for supplying warm air to the bananas mounted P the base 4 t0 r g the to prevent the same from chilling in cold p i theboxi ttft tb not ha weatherand thereby become unsalable. thereal" 3 Otthe box 15 h g h t A. still, further object of the invention is in front end 3 and'that th upp'e' dge of each i the provision of a display rack which'is proof the side members land 2 gradually curves i ports for the fabric strip 11 to maintain t e same in looped formation on the rods 10 as is more clearly indicated in Fig. 2. Each one of these looped portions 13 is adapted to receive a hand or several hands of bananas and the distance between the rods 10 is of sufficient length to prevent the. ends of the bananas of one hand from coming into contact with the bananas ofa' hand placed in the next higher loop13. It will be noted that since the loops 13-. are arranged in stepped relation that the upper layer of bananas 0 each hand will be exposed to view.

Referring to Fig. 4', I have shown a means for covering the fruit on display which con- 7 sist of a fabric strip 15 of sufficient width to permit the edges of' the same to lie down over the upper edges of the respective sides 1 and 2. Thesstrip 15 is wound on the roller 16, the same being secured to-the display rack by meansof the brackets 17 positioned at each end-- thereof. The roller 16 maybe of the curtain roller type so that the strip 15 may be wound thereon or unwound therefrom. The forward edge of the strip is provided with the gri s 18* which are adapted to hook over the ro l9 positioned adjacent the forward edge of the display rack. It will thus be seen that thefruit maybefcompletely cov- .ered very quickly and easily and. in cold weather'this is of vital importance in order to maintainfruit in perfect condition;

Referring to Figs. 5 and 6' it will be seen that the fabric strip 20 is engaged atits' forward and rear edge by'the rods 21 each formed with the downturned' ends 22 which areadapted to engage-insuitable apertures provided in the upper edge of-the side members 28 and 24 of the. rack.

maybe taken out and replaced with a new strip-in the event that any one of the same becomes soiled or damaged.

port, forthefruit'thereby preventing injury to. the 1 same due to the weight of the upper layer of bananas on the onestherebeneath andilikewise that thedevice is, so constructed.

In this form of" construction any one of the fabric strips 20 as to permit the fruit displayed thereon to be maintained at a temperature sufficiently warm to prevent chilling thereof and likewise that the device is extremely cheap to manufacture and assemble and will rovide a rack for the attractive display of ruit or the like.

Having thus fully described my invention,

its utility and mode of operation, what I less than the distance between said pair of:

rodsand providing a series of flexible pockets adapted to support fruit or other material practically in fullview from the front of the rack.

2. In a display, rack for resenting 'mer chandise to the-view of purchasers, a frame, a strip of flexible material supported thereby in a series of loops each of'said' loops having the general form in cross section of an involute curve and'the series of loops bein so relatively osi tioned that a line exten ing from the ower to an up er edge of the loops insuccession has the fbrm of an upwardly extending curve within the concave side 'of'which thedisplayed articles are positioned. I

In testimony whereof I sign this specification.

' WALTER 0; BROWN. 

